I think the skull helmet is a shout out to Infinity Ward (they are pretty good friends I hear).

But whats with the Elite at the end I never knew they had teeth! From what I remember they only had a gaping hole underneath their 4 mouth pieces... Looks kinda scary. But I'm very happy they are not fighting Brutes in this one. I always liked the elites better as enemies.

And if anyone has read Halo: Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund they should be excited. That book was amazing.

Looking forward to it. The Fall of Reach was one of the better books. Although it's kind of hard to feel pumped by the music anymore. ODST at least had a very different style, this feels like old school "generic epic music" again, at least in the trailer.

Halo, Call of Duty and Guitar Hero share the fact that aside from minor technical modifications and small mechanical changes (aside from Halo's dual-wielding), they are functionally the same game each sequel.

At least Mario adds new mechanics each game that actually alter gameplay significantly!

Ok, so it's definitely not at GH levels of selling it's body to the streets, but in terms of evolution Halo and GH are shockingly similar.

Does anyone actually know that this is a prequel? I mean, it's a direct prequel to Halo 1. If anything, I would expect the awesome gun play that game had. But, let's not say anything yet, so I don't get proven wrong and the last bit of faith I had in Halo gets demolished.